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EVENT
OPERATION REDWING

1.

The INCA device was fired at O956M, 22 June 1956, from atop

i. 200-foot tower located on RUJORU Island (PEARL) of ENIWETOK Atoll.

"the bomb cloud reached an estimated height of 42,000 feet.
<énd cloud moved to the west at approximately 10 knots.

The stem

The stem

zppeared to contain more surface debris than usual for tower shots of

¢imilar magnitude and height of burst,
2.

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The fallout forecast was based on a yield an
cue

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3.
cast.

Initial helicopter and P2V surveys verifiad the fallout foreShot island and the lagoon area to the west were the only areas

vhich gave appreciable radiation readings,
rev aircraft to a range of 100 miles.

The cloud was tracked by

At 100 miles the cloud was

zporoximately 50 miles long and 15 miles across with an average intensity

cf 50 mr/hr at 10,000 feet altitude through INCA plus 3 days.
5S.

Based on the radiological surveys of the atoll by helicopter

end P2v aircraft, reentry hour was amounced as 1200M, 22 June 1956.
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